Nick's Film Jottings

Maybe because we were very familiar with the story, told better in Trust ,  that this seemed a little dull - it's written by David Scarp...

A joy of a plot in which couple Woody Allen and Helena Bonham Carter adopt; years later he begins to have a burning desire to know who this ...

Still don't know what 'The Rainmaker' is, but apart from that, a satisfying adaptation of John Grisham novel, as newly qualified...

Roach made Trumbo , and before that silliness like Austin Powers and Meet the Fockers . An hour in, I was thinking this is an issue led fil...

This review perfectly holds up. Irrfan Khan died recently, sadly only 53. He's very good as a gradually more sympathetic investigating ...

Ianucci and Simon Blackwell's colour blind take on Dickens is innovative, visually inventive and very funny, seizing on the aspect of Co...

Tightly and beautifully plotted, and directed by a former montage designer, Charley Varrick  is a springy bundle of energy, beginning with a...

We're Wilderpeople - Billy Wilderpeople! Ha ha. “My friend and I tried to explain the New Zealand-style of comedy as a comedy of the mun...

Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan (who's now won seven BAFTAs apparently - actually five) continue to out-impersonate each other across Greece...

Written by Brian Garfield ( Death Wish  author) and Bryan Forbes, with input from Neame (once he heard Matthau was on board). It was tweaked...

I don't know what Wilder (and Universal) were doing remaking the Hecht-MacArthur classic - which Hawks had perfected as His Girl Friday ...

Cheap First National picture takes place mainly in hotel rooms. Writer Warren William encounters old flame Genevieve Tobin, who's now ma...

It's Misery , I remember thinking - he's a prisoner in her mausoleum. My favourite moments: Holden meeting Nancy Olsen at the party,...

Very smooth adaptation of Alexandre Breffort musical by Wilder and Diamond, with help from Trauner, LaShelle (the only film of his I've ...

Screenplay Lena Waithe, story Waithe and James Frey. In a highly timely story, couple Daniel Kaluuya and Jodie Turner-Smith fall foul of the...

Educated, privileged woman needs to travel around the world (Bali, Italy, India, Bali) to 'find herself' - which is a bit of a prepo...

Who? Fanny Herrero was herself a stage actor before become a writer. She contributed to: Les Bleus,  about rookie police (9 episodes), Un V...

Paul Walter Hauser was in BlacKkKlansman as one of the racists. He's utterly credible as the title character. Billy Ray wrote it based ...

Terrific and funny lockdown piece with brilliant Michael Sheen and David Tennant, and their other halves Lucy Eaton and Georgia Moffet. Two ...

This is a real treat, great lines and jokes abound ("You'll have the money on a silver platter" assures Matthau, holding a sil...